 | Francis Bashforth - 1873 - 424 pages
...the pressure it exerts on the bore of the gun. Therefore, as the Chronoscope, at the most, can only determine the motion of the shot, and through that...altogether free from accident." (Proceedings of the KA Institution, July, 1880, p. 197). 144. We may accept the doctrine that there is a considerable variation... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1882 - 600 pages
...upon the gun. He was, therefore, not surprised to find Sir W. Armstrong declaring (16th March, 1880) that "nothing, in fact, wants investigation so much...cannot hope to be altogether free from accident." 1 And this was said after the failure of one of his 100-ton guns, although its strength was far beyond... | |
 | 1882 - 602 pages
...upon the gun. He was, therefore, not surprised to find Sir W. Armstrong declaring (16th March, 1880) that "nothing, in fact, wants investigation so much...cannot hope to be altogether free from accident." l And this was said after the failure of one of his 100-ton guns, although its strength was far beyond... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 688 pages
..." far in e\ccss of what a normal pressure would demand." And then he goes on to state, March iSSo, that " Nothing, in fact, wants investigation so much as this powder question " (Proceedings of the RA Institution, Woolwich, vol. xi. p. 197). If chamberI ing is to be profitably... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 766 pages
..." far in excess of what a normal pressure would demand." And then he goes on to state, March 1880, that " Nothing, in fact, wants investigation so much as this powder question " (Proceedings of the RA Institution, Woolwich, vol. xi. p. 197). If chambering is to be profitably... | |
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Nothing, in fact, wants investigation so much as this powder question, and until we arrive at more definite conclusions, we cannot hope to be altogether free from accident. 